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Huawei Unveils Ascend P2, Big Ambitions for the Future

BARCELONA: The lack of really big announcements from the heavy-hitters — HTC and Samsung — at the MWC this year opened up space for the slightly less recognizable players to get full media attention for their wares.

Case in point: Huawei, which had a very large room chock-full of journalists in the beautiful setting of Casa Llotja del Mar in Barcelona.

And Huawei, currently the third largest smartphone maker n the world, grabbed the opportunity with both hands. "Today is the day that Huawei grows up," said Amy Lou, global brand director for Huawei device, before making a small speech about determination, perserverance and stopping at nothing to "make impossible possible".

This mostly boils down to the Ascend P2, a super-thin (8mm) Android 4.1 smartphone with a 4.7-inch display and a 1.5GHz quad-core processor.

Huawei calls it the "world's fastest smartphone," basing it on the device's LTE Cat4 chip, which provides internet data transfer speeds of up to 150 Mbps.

The device also boasts something Huawei calls the "infinity edge display," taking cue from infinity pools. It refers to the device's screen which looks like it runs up right to the very edge of the device (in reality, it doesn't), creating an effect of a borderless phone.

Other specs include a 13-megapixel camera with BSI and HDR capability, a 315 PPI screen with 500 nits of brightness and a 1000:1 contrast. The device also includes a 2420mAh battery, one of the best in its class, which coupled with the device's low power consumption (it consumes 30% less power than its peers, Huawei claims), should be enough to take you through a busy day.

Huawei Ascend P2 will be globally available Q2 2013 with a street price of 399 euros.

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